Terrariums

This is a picture of my terrarium in science. We were seeing which type of environment plants and animals liked the best. Me and my partner put soil in the bottom. Then we dug little holes with our fingers to plant the seeds in the Terrarium. Then we put them somewhere where they could get sunlight. In our terrarium packet we mapped out where we planted each type of seed. We also used a sticky note on the front of the terrarium and wrote both of our last names on them, we wrote front on it, and Our teachers name. The seeds were pea, radish, corn, barley, and clover.
The environmental factors that affected my terrarium is water tolerance. Our isopods preferred the wet soil.
The insects in my terrarium are the isopds.
The plants that grew best in my terrarium are the pea seeds and the corn seeds. The plants that grew the worst were the barley seeds and the radish seeds.

My Terrarium

In Science we are doing a unit on Terrariums and we had to build our own.
We did it by taking a plastic box and putting in soil on the bottom. Then we
flattened it out with our hands. After that we picked seeds to plant in our
Terrarium and we picked how many of the plants we wanted to plant in our
Terrarium. Me and my partner planted 2 Radish seeds, 2 Pea seeds, 2 Corn
seeds, 1 Clover seed, and 1 Barley seed. Then we watered them and put saran
wrap on the top of the Terrarium. Then we waited for the seeds to grow.

My Pea seeds grew so much more then any of the other seeds me and my
partner planted. The Radish seed hasn't even grown yet and the clover seed only
grew a little.

We planted our seeds by putting 4 of them in the front and 4 of them in the back.
When we planted our seeds we used our fingers to dig little holes in the soil but not all
the way down. Then we covered them back up with the soil and then watered them.

We also made runways and me and my partner tested with Isopod bugs and put wet
soil on one side, grass in the middle, and dry soil on the other side. We observed that the
Isopods like the wet soil better then the grass or the dry soil. After that we dumped the runway in our Terrariums and the Isopods went in too. When we put them in 1 of our 2 bugs died and
one is still alive right now.

I really like the Terrarium unit so far and I hope it will continue to be just as fun!!!

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5th Grade Camp

This is a picture with my group doing the class wild life which is the last class we did before we left 5th grade camp. In this picture my group is standing by a tree named George. George is a oak tree that is named after George Washington.

My favorite thing about camp is going on the hikes because I get to see animals and learn about nature. One of my other favorite things about camp was the Recreation Time because we got to play Volleyball. It was boys against girls and the girls one almost every time.

Something I would change about camp is the sleeping part because every night on my side of the Dorms the girls would not stop talking and I couldn't get any sleep. The first night was loud and the 2nd night was quieter because everybody was so tired.

At about 6:00 it would be time to shower and after we showered we would go down to the fireplace room were one of the night activities were going on. The first night activities was when the string man came. (Mr. Reed) He caught us how to do lots of string figures like the Cup and saucer, the Eiffel tower, and Jacobs Ladder. One of the other night activities we did on the last night at camp was dissecting Owl Pellets. It was really nasty. We had to look for animals insides that the owl ate. Me and my partner Mara found 2 skulls and a rib cage and teeth.

I Had a really fun time at 5th grade camp and i wish that I could go back again.

In science last week my class and I made planes. It was my favorite science unit. In this picture we are testing out Foss Planes and finding the results. And one of the people in this picture is coming back from getting a new rubber band to test.



To make them we used small straws and large straws,and two Popsicle sticks. We had to sand both of the Popsicle sticks down on one end. Then we had to punch a hole in the straw we cut in half. After that we had to take the straw that we cut in half and stick it threw the medium straw. So at that point the plane would have two straws and on the top there would be one straw sticking threw the straw we cut in half. Next we took the two Popsicle sticks and made sure they were the same Length and that the sanded down part was even. Last we took the two Popsicle sticks and put them at the end of the cut in half straws. Then we stapled the Popsicle sticks together so that they were attached to the bottom of the straw also and then we were done making it. And last we had to put a propeller on the end of the sanded down Popsicle stick.

Now it was time to experiment. For the first experiment we had to use fishing string and tape that to one end of a chair using duke tape. Then we taped the other side of the string on to another chair and also used duke tape. On one end we had to take the tape off and stick the end of the string into the straw and put the tape back on the end. Then I had to get a rubber band to put on the end of the propeller piece and on the other end of the Popsicle stick. Then i twisted the propeller 30 times and held the plane to the very end of the chair and let go of the plane. The plane took off and stopped exactly at the other end without hitting the chair hard because if it hit the other chair hard you twisted it to many times. We tested with different types of rubber band. there was a thick green, blue, yellow, white, regular, and red. Then there was a thin green, blue, yellow, white, regular, and red rubber band. Me and my partners found that the thick yellow one worked for us best.

What I learned in this unit was that you can't change more then one variable at a time because you wont know what was making the experiment different.

Super Bowl

On Super Bowl Sunday me and my family always play
a game called squares. This year we had my grandparents
over. To play the game you need a poster board and you draw
squares. We draw 100 of them and this year there were 7 people
at my house so each person wrote their name in 14 squares and there
2 left over so we put my dogs name in them. Then you write the teams
name on the top and the other one down the side. But you have to leave
10 squares on the top open to write card numbers. You can put them in
a random order. You do thew same to the other side to. You put the
numbers in random order on the side to. After each quarter of the game
you look and see what the score is. Like if the score was 7-7 you put your
finger on each number and wait until your fingers meet. the persons name
that it lands on wins the quarter.

Twilight!

I am reading Twilight and it is a really good book and movie.
Its about a girl named Bella who goes to move in with her dad.
Her parents are divorced. Her mom is getting re-married and
her new husband is a professional Baseball player so they are
going to be traveling to lots of places and Bella thought it would
be a good time to visit her dad and live with him. When Bella
gets to her new school everyone i very friendly to her. But
there is one person there named Edward and he has a big secret.
This is going to cause a big problem threw the rest of the book.
To find out what happens go to a library and check out the book
Twilight!

Inauguraton

Today is Inauguration day which is the day our new president gets sworn in to office.
In class we watched it. Barack Obama is now our new President of the United states.
Before he had to make a long speech about all the things he is going to do as president.
At 12:00 January 20 2009 Barack Obama Became the president.

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Christmas!!

My favorite holiday is Christmas. I like it because it is a time off of school and I get to see all of my family when we get together for a Christmas party. I also like Christmas because my cousins, Aunts, and Uncles come in from Virginia on Christmas day. Another thing I like about Christmas is I get presents which is always fun. On Christmas Eve I go to my Grandmas house for another Christmas party for my dads side of the family which is a small party we have every year. On my way home form my Grandmas house we always look up in the sky to see if we see Santa and the reindeer. I think Santa isn't real though but my mom says he is but that's just my opinion.This is why Christmas is my favorite holiday.

Merry Christmas!!!